What did you do today?

Forgive me for writing about yesterday rather than today.

11:00 Woke up, coffee, cigarettes, breakfast etc. Checked the temperature: 33°C (91.4°F). Not bad considered that we’ve had 38°C (100.4°F) earlier this summer.
12:30 Left home with my wife.
12:40 Grabbed the bus. Bad driver, good air conditioning.
12:50 Left the bus. Walked for 10 minutes down to the store Jumbo. Had a cigarette and some water before we went inside to shop – stuff for the house, a few garments, cockroach traps, tealights, toothpicks etc. Much of it half price of what we pay elsewhere.
13:45 Payed.
14:00 Back at the bus station where a Greek woman claimed that the bus had already gone, and the next one was due in an hour. We didn’t really believe her since we’d taken that bus several times before, and it had never come earlier than 10 minutes past.
14:20 Grudgingly we had to accept that the woman was right and start to rearrange our plans: We had planned to go by bus to the harbour and have lunch at a restaurant before going home. Instead we started to walk along the dusty and busy main road under a scorching sun, most of the way without a pavement. My wife hadn’t brought a hat, so she put a pair of trousers we’d bought at Jumbo on top of her head. We were quite a sight.
14:50 Found a cafe. It was closed, but the owner and his family were having a private barbecue and we were allowed to have a Coke and a smoke. That probably saved our lives (the Coke, not the smoke). Sat for app. 20 minutes before leaving.
15:45 Arrived at cafe Sousami inside town. Had a small beer each.
16:20 Sat down at Mama’s Pita quite close to our home to eat a simple lunch: Greek salad and bifteki (Greek hamburgers). Asked for wine, but they only had retsina, so we had a karafaki (2 dl) of ouzo instead. We took half of it with us when we left.
17:30 When we reached the street where we lived, my wife suggested that we’d have a coffee at Bonito, so we went inside their garden and ordered to frappé (ice coffee).
18:10 Finally home – exhausted, but in a good mood. Had a glass of wine before we showered.

The rest of the day was less interesting. It included some more food and fluids, of course, some strange cicada noises from our bathroom, an argument about what makes people argument, and a good deal of laughing. Went to bed at two-three o’clock, so what we did after belongs to another day.

Went to the record store on my lunch break today.  That's always fun.

Today Aug 21:

Wow, you American boys head back to school really early in comparison to us Canadians. We don't start till September the 4th!  I suppose it varies throughout the country though.

Okay, what did I do today? Hmm..

- Woke up at 6:30 AM to go to work with my dad (landscaping, lawn maintenance).
- Listened to Sound Chaser by Yes and TNT by Tortoise on the way up to the first property.
- The first place, RV Park - 3 acres, took 2 hours altogether, with the both of us. Luckily it was a fairly cool day.
- Had lunch at Tim Hortons.
- Worked with my father till 3:00 PM, around our area. About 10 properties, altogether, were finished.
- Stopped by Mike's Record Store and bought a Foxtrot Vinyl - New.
- Watched a couple of episodes of Metal Evolution on the computer and various concert clips on youtube (John Zorn, Henry Cow).
- Had porkchop for dinner.
- Listened to Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Die in my basement for an hour.
- Went to my grandma's house for a late night swim in her pool.
- Went on PA. Haven't been on much lately, pretty busy.
- Sleep

Today:
Woke up about 5:30.
Got dressed then stood in formation for a while.
Went to class for a while.
Ate.
Went to class for a while longer.
Ate.
Study/listen to music.
Procrastinate.
Alternate the last two a few more times.
Later, sleep.

>wake up

I got up at 6:00 and got on TV:
http://youtu.be/sFuEfxbOXG8
The rest of the day didn't really matter.



Edited by Slartibartfast - August 20 2012 at 21:57

smartpatrol wrote: 8:30: Woke up, got something to eat, got dressed, ect. 9:30: Started school 5:00: got shower 5:30: got on Computer

Nothing of interest.

3:00 AM: the cat wakes me. I kick him through the door.
6:00 AM: the clockwork wakes me. I kick it through the door.
6:30 AM: I get up.
7:50 AM: after the breakfast, the shower and kicking the cat through the cellar, I take the subway to the train station, then take the train to the bus station, then walk a few minutes before entering the factory.

9:00 AM - Noon: Working. Nails, wood and wheels. Don't ask me.

Noon - 1:00 PM: lunch and fight with collegues over yesterday's ping pong match.

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Working. Leather, oil and steel. Don't ask me.

5:00 - 6:00 PM: meeting of the union. Talk about kicking the boss through the door. Binge drinking.

7:00 PM: took meal at the Chinese restaurant in the corner street.

8:00 - 11:00 PM: Drinking in front of TV to forget.